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When Will You Sell Your Copper?

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 Posted 04/06/2017  8:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add LibertyEagle20 to your friends list
When the penny goes away and prices rise. Wouldn't be worth it to sell now IMO.
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 Posted 04/06/2017  8:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add T-BOP to your friends list
Sid , who do you intend on selling it to ? Dealers will not buy them , collectors will not buy them , and the smelters won't buy because it's still illegal to melt copper cents . 95% copper Lincolns are still in abundance and still circulating with no shortage to speak of ,so why would anyone buy them ?
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 Posted 04/06/2017  8:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Crazyb0 to your friends list
T-Bop, I even have the fancy copper rounds @ 3 lbs of it that to sell now would be ridiculously stupidociously defunctitorily insane in today's market. PM's are a buyers market not a sellers and won't be for quite some time it seems.

So much for Bullion flipping...

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04/06/2017 8:48 pm
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 Posted 04/06/2017  9:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sid1776 to your friends list
so are you saying hoarding copper is pointless? There are a few people selling their hoards on ebay, and it says they have sold a couple batches. for example, http://www.ebay.com/itm/15-10LB-195...AOSwLnBXXOMw
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 Posted 04/06/2017  10:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Wade to your friends list
hoarding copper isn't worth it. silver takes up 100x less space and the market will fluctuate enough that you could actually call it an investment.
if it sells by the pound instead of the ounce I wouldn't keep it.

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 Posted 04/06/2017  11:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Andrew99 to your friends list
Soybeans sell by the ton and you can make money buying and selling it. You usually don't store them in your office, though.
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 Posted 04/07/2017  12:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Crazyb0 to your friends list
When the 1oz copper rounds came out I bought the series coins, just becausevthey looked sharp, not for any " investment purpose", that would be the "Precious" metals, of which copper is not among the major players anymore, (too much scrap). I used to give out the patriotic copper rounds to my contracting customers, more appreciative than a silly pen!
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 Posted 04/07/2017  01:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Finn235 to your friends list
I think copper peaked around 6 years ago, and has been hovering around "not even worth it" since then. I dumped 75+ pounds ($110) into a coinstar a few months back for an Amazon gift card. No regrets here.
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 Posted 04/07/2017  01:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add UltraRant to your friends list
Just let them be. They don't eat bread and they don't require their own tv. Right now the market is bad for copper, and copper hoarding never lived up to the expectations a significant group of people had a few years ago. But the world is a dynamic place, so who knows what happens next?

I honestly don't care much about what other people do or claim to do with copper hoards now. It's what's feasible for you, and then T-BOP is spot on.
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 Posted 04/07/2017  01:50 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mvl9591 to your friends list
My copper pennies are in large clear plastic containers, the two or three gallon size. So they make interesting conversation pieces.
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 Posted 04/07/2017  07:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sid1776 to your friends list
Wow, okay, I guess I'll return them
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 Posted 04/07/2017  10:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list
If you have the space for them, then keep them. Hoarding copper is a long term play at best. Otherwise just dump/deposit for face value.
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 Posted 04/08/2017  11:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jack jeckel to your friends list
I have about 800lbs of copper cents sitting around.

I used to have a buyer when copper was $3/lb.

When it tanked to $2/lb overnight he disappeared.

I stopped getting boxes of cents after the drop.

I would sell to anyone who shows up to take them off my hands for a profit.
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 Posted 04/09/2017  09:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add T-BOP to your friends list
I hope their on a concrete slab
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 Posted 04/09/2017  09:40 am  Show Profile   Check nss-52's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add nss-52 to your friends list

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I have about 800 lbs of copper cents sitting around.


That's about 116,000 coins ($1,160.00).
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